@DebNemeth @AuthorGuy SFWA has accepted epub and POD as qualifying material for years. # SFWA member Leah Cypess's second fantasy novel, NIGHTSPELL, releases today from HarperCollins. And it got a starred review from Kirkus! #
@ghostfinder It includes a sub to The Bulletin. # @ghostfinder I'm not sure. Drop a line to office@sfwa.org to check. #
Publishers that pay on net profit often pay higher royalty percentages than average, and if the percentage is large enough–50% or more–it may offset the deductions. But be sure you know exactly what those deductions are.
Being paralyzed led me to becoming a writer. While in that incapacitated state, I began spinning stories in order to go to the places I physically could not. It was no surprise that those stories were science fiction and fantasy, and that their main characters tended to be people with amazing abilities and “deformities.”
Just as I need to know my hero’s goal, motives, and plan, I also need to know the same things about my antagonist. In fact, in some stories the antagonist’s plans are what drive the story.
Literary agencies becoming publishers? Screw that trend. PublishAmerica, always a trail blazer, is swinging the other way.
John E. Johnston, III, was the recipient of this year’s SFWA Service Award, presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. The SFWA Service Award is given at the discretion of the President and with Board approval to a member of SFWA who best exemplifies the ideal of service to his or her fellow […]
Congratulations to SFWA member @RobertJSawyer whose novel WWW: WATCH won the Hal Clement Award for Best YA SF Novel. http://bit.ly/kkxK8i # SFWA member @alcole123 To commemorate Memorial Day: Wars Of The Shannons E-book for $1. http://is.gd/qKl1pO Coupon: TH82M. 'til June 1. # @aislinn_mac @USNessie Yes, that's how SFWA memberships work as well. #
The Weird, as opposed to horror or dark fantasy, has a slippery quality of “you know it when you read it,” with an element of terror, perhaps, but more likely unease.
Industry News and Member News for Jakob Drud, Patrick O’Sullivan, Matthew Sanborn Smith, Erin Hoffman, Dave Freer, Jon Armstrong, Brandon Sanderson, Anna D. Allen, David Levine, Allan Cole, Karen Azinger, and Ferrett Steinmetz.
In the sequel to the critically acclaimed Hot Moon, set in an alternate 1983, Apollo astronaut Vivian Carter and her crew barely survive an armed attack from mysterious assailants at the lunar South Pole … and that’s just the beginning.
John W. Maly holds degrees in law, psychology, and computer engineering and has worked in computer technology litigation for over a decade. A graduate of Stanford University’s Novel Writing program, John is an avid traveler, reader, and writer.
